Canadian historical-instrument group Tafelmusik has followed several of its peer ensembles into orchestral repertory of the 19th century, and a blurbed comment from the British magazine Gramophone included in the graphics for this release suggests typically startling results: the players "convince us that Beethoven can sound as radical in the 21st century as he must have done in the 19th." The program opens with Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90 ("Italian"), which doesn't come off as terribly radical. True, ...
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Canadian historical-instrument group Tafelmusik has followed several of its peer ensembles into orchestral repertory of the 19th century, and a blurbed comment from the British magazine Gramophone included in the graphics for this release suggests typically startling results: the players "convince us that Beethoven can sound as radical in the 21st century as he must have done in the 19th." The program opens with Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90 ("Italian"), which doesn't come off as terribly radical. True, German conductor Bruno Weil takes both outer movements at a speedy clip and keeps the ensemble running very precisely, but the basic balance among the sections of the orchestra is conventional. The overall effect of the Mendelssohn is that of a curtain-raiser for the Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 ("Eroica"), much the weightier of the pair in these readings. Weil's tempi are brisk here, as well, but the more novel aspect is the treatment of the brass and wind...
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